The Mack is an extremely well-executed and played soundtrack album with an opulent musical palette full of harps, french horns and velvety orchestration, all melded to Hutch’s funk and soul songs. Tender moments like ‘Mother’s Theme’ or classic seventies-soul torch track ‘I Choose You’ are high quality, high drama soul, while elsewhere there’s plenty of uptempo percussive soul and funk jams, characterised by tight, taut, interlocking funk guitar work from Hutch himself, ably aided by session stars Louie Sheldon and David T. Walker.